বুধবার, ২০ ফেব্রুয়ারী, ২০১৩

Pirate Bay calls cops on Finnish copyright enforcement thugs that ...

You may have heard that the private Finnish copyright enforcement agency CIAPC (the same creeps who confiscated a 9 year old girl's Winnie the Pooh laptop because she downloaded a song from an artist whose CD, t-shirt and concert tickets she went on to buy) have ripped off the sourcecode for The Pirate Bay in order to launch a website opposed to The Pirate Bay. In response, The Pirate Bay has reported CIAPC to the economics crimes unit of the Finnish police.

?In a similar case, the prosecution and the Helsinki Court of Appeals have found that a parody site can violate the moral rights of the original author. Changing the logo or making slight edits to the text are not enough to remove this liability,? they informed the police...

?While The Pirate Bay may have a positive view on copying, it will not stand by and watch copyright enforcing organizations disrespect copyright,? Pirate Bay?s Winston says in a comment.

?CIAPC is like an ugly high school bully without friends. It?s time to take a stand. Cyber bullying is a serious matter to us all,? Winston continues.

Should The Pirate Bay be awarded damages they won?t keep that money for themselves. Instead, the money will go to the 9-year old girl who was ?harassed? last year.

But, even if they ?lose? it wouldn?t be a big deal, as that?s a win for the right to parody.

This right to parody is part of a new copyright law proposal in Finland, crowd-sourced by the public. Besides parody exceptions the Common Sense in Copyright campaign also aims to get rid of harsh punishments for non-commercial file-sharers.

I love that even if they lose, it will establish the case for a parody exception to Finnish copyright law, which The Pirate Bay supports and which CIAPC vehemently opposes.

The Pirate Bay Reports Anti-Piracy Outfit to the Police
[TorrentFreak/Ernesto]